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They made a TV show out of Ferris Bueller's Day Off. It wasn't great.

Dalí nearly stumped panelists on the U.S. television game show.

A newsreel shows what life was like for contacts-wearers before the invention of soft and breathable lenses.

A zoom through the universe...and inside ourselves.

In 1975, professional basketball player and former Globetrotter Connie Hawkins challenged singer-songwriter Paul Simon to a game of one-on-one.

Computer Show hosts from 1983 encounter guests from 2015. Hilarity ensues. ("Wait, let's go back to this...'web-site'?")

"Fozzie, see, the thing of it is—you're not a real bear. You're not a real, natural bear." -Kermit

Two researchers have set out to commit whales' otherwordly sound to paper.

Kids’ TV show Pitagora Suitchi makes science fun.

Here's what went down when William F. Buckley interviewed the literary giant.

Humans have a long history of clever ideas that go horribly wrong.

Virtual reality is reinventing the grammar of storytelling.

Despina Makai was born in the 1700s, and filmed by her grandsons over 100 years later.

A chemist's guide to smelling good.

Comparative psychologist Fumihiro Kano and his collaborator Satoshi Hirata are using the movies to study long-term memory in apes.

Professor Frank Drake proposed a super-depressing formula explaining why we haven't gotten alien radio signals yet.

See what's happening in the spine during physical movement.

A new short film illustrates the difficulty of understanding English if you don't understand English!

These artisans and small companies prove that they do, in fact, make 'em like this anymore.

“I’m paid less than Robin!”

Microsoft felt the need to train people on how to conduct a party in their own homes.

The future of your salad may be sitting in a nondescript building in Indiana.

We've come a long way since the days of inflated animal bladders.

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